Watch in horror and awe as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director uses early builds of characters like a vtuber model in the only video on Sandfall's old YouTube channel

Early dark-haired character face model for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

Sandfall Interactive, the French studio founded by ex-Ubisoft devs which recently released instant-hit turn-based JRPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, has a YouTube channel filled with trailers and developer dives and soundtrack snippets.

There's also an old channel called Sandfall Devs which has 536 subscribers and exactly one video: a 2021 tutorial on a character asset pipeline for Unreal Engine 5, where Expedition 33 director Guillaume Broche brings vtuber-like puppeteering to old face models that might just be a precursor to Lune, a character who, four years after this video was posted, has become the glue for my party in the finished game.